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Fantasy sports websites boast million dollar prizes, and seven figures is nothing to sneeze at. For that matter, neither is the controversial $350,000 payout an employee at fantasy sports site DraftKings employee recently earned at rival site FanDuel.

While the daily fantasy sports jackpots can be big, they’re a mere drop in the bucket of what has become a massive, multi-billion dollar industry.

Number of states that allow daily fantasy sports contests, because those states consider them a game of "skill," not luck. It’s considered legal on a federal level, according to the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.